In this extraordinarily intimate film, seven years in the making, we are taken into the depths of the Hasidim's joyous, sometimes harsh, and often beautiful world. With their use of the Yiddish language, their distinctive clothes and their strict observance to Jewish ritual and law, the Hasidim are considered by many an insular people with little connection to mainstream America. And yet their values are those that many Americans find most precious: family, community and a life of meaning.

" Startlingly intimate!"

"Beautiful, mysterious and mesmerizing." -San Francisco Bay Guardian

The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch by Sue Fishkoff

Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground by Robert Eisenberg

Read FRF's interview with co-director Oren Rudavsky.

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• PBS Interview with Directors
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• Filmmaker Biographies
• Interactive Menus
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Format: DVD
Release Year:1997
Running Time: 95 minutes
Color: Color
Language: English